[PATCHES] PPC (PowerPC) Linux support for powerpc-linux and powerpc64-linux targets

@araldor and cedric, any updates on patches for any of the endian issues?
Have you looked at tools like PortAsm/86, Relogix, or something similar?
http://www.microapl.co.uk/Porting/PortAsm86.html

I see that PS3 is mentioned in the first post and then a reference further on about dropping PPC64.

What's the status/ideas regarding PS3 at the moment?

phunqe Wrote:I see that PS3 is mentioned in the first post and then a reference further on about dropping PPC64.

What's the status/ideas regarding PS3 at the moment?

Don't hold your breath. The biggest barrier is not the CPU architecture, but rather the lack of OpenGL support.

Gamester17 Wrote:@araldor and cedric, any updates on patches for any of the endian issues?
Have you looked at tools like PortAsm/86, Relogix, or something similar?
http://www.microapl.co.uk/Porting/PortAsm86.html

Sorry for the inactivity, I did not have (or take:sniffle enough time to submit new patches. I will try to make a new one concerning endianess this week.

Thanks for the tip, but it seems theses tools are more designed to work from assembly language than from C. In addition there is not much work to do, since most of the external libraries already support both endianess.

I spend less time on the porting since I figured out my ppc mac mini is far not powerfull enough to play a SD mpeg4 file with opengl

Hello,

I'm not a programmer but i have interest of port of xbmc on PS3. There is a hope? I see in forum of ps2dev a post about driver spe for mplayer on ps3 (video decoding accelerating with spe). The guy who works on it is Unsolo. Do you have any contact with him?.
Or the port of xbmc on ppc architecture is dead.

PS: Sorry for my english, i'm french

cedric Wrote:I spend less time on the porting since I figured out my ppc mac mini is far not powerfull enough to play a SD mpeg4 file with opengl

It would seem that it could be dead. The PS3 is another beast entirely. PPC support is but a fraction of the work that needs to be done there. If you ever find an OpenGL implementation for the SPUs, let us know.

Pug064 Wrote:Hello,

I'm not a programmer but i have interest of port of xbmc on PS3. There is a hope? I see in forum of ps2dev a post about driver spe for mplayer on ps3 (video decoding accelerating with spe). The guy who works on it is Unsolo. Do you have any contact with him?.
Or the port of xbmc on ppc architecture is dead.

PS: Sorry for my english, i'm french

As malloc said, I do not expect to do miracles with my mac mini, and I have no PS3, so I bought a computer with blueray just for xbmc. Nevertheless, I reached to play a movie on my mac mini at 10 fps using opengl with right colors and sound. I will commit a patch later, along with the last binary I built (mp3 playback working, ffmpeg video working, some color errors in GUI)

There is other threads to speak about ps3, but according to me the big work will be in the support of opengl.

cedric Wrote:Sorry for the inactivity, I did not have (or take:sniffle enough time to submit new patches. I will try to make a new one concerning endianess this week.

Thanks for the tip, but it seems theses tools are more designed to work from assembly language than from C. In addition there is not much work to do, since most of the external libraries already support both endianess.

I spend less time on the porting since I figured out my ppc mac mini is far not powerfull enough to play a SD mpeg4 file with opengl

If you have any unfinished patches or unposted patches I'd love to try to compile them under the wii.

How much cpu does your mac mini have?, for good measure.

Also dont give up to much on the PPC seeing that rudds patches might give you a bit of speed boost, maybe enough. maybe not

Topfs2 Wrote:If you have any unfinished patches or unposted patches I'd love to try to compile them under the wii.

Here it is, my complete working directory (sources + binaries) is available here: http://www.4shared.com/dir/7875132/74f6e...aring.html

Great! Please submit all patches as diffs (seperatly per 'feature', I think?), see:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_submit_a_patch
http://trac.xbmc.org

Yeah please don't give up so soon. So what if videos does not play smoothly right now, it's early in the development, even if it turns out that a low-end a Mac can not playback all standard-definition, that doesn't mean that others will the later models Mac's will have the same problem. Plus, this is like mentioned previously possibly a first stepping stone to greater things down the road...